Marcia DeSanctis writes essays and stories for Vogue, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Departures, BBC Travel, Air Mail, Creative Nonfiction, Lit Hub, Roads & Kingdoms and many other publications. She received the 2021 Grand Solas Award for Travel Story of the Year, wrote a New York Times bestselling book about France, and has received five Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year. A graduate of Princeton University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, her book of essays, A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life, comes out in 2022.